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Normally, I name my characters after famous comedians. — Paula Danziger
For me, writing is an experience. It's an exercise in which I want to discover myself by taking my characters to the edges of human… — Ted Dekker
I think it's very important to write a demythologized woman character. My characters are flawed. They are no better than they should be. — Anne Enright
You know, I've always just made the choices on my characters based on my connection to them, and I've made decisions that maybe other people… — Summer Glau
I spend a lot of time with my characters. — R. Lee Ermey
I'm about my characters. — Abel Ferrara
I realise that it is fashionable now to dismiss the traditional novel as something of an anachronism, but to me it is still a vital… — Paule Marshall
I always talk about my characters like they're real people. — Dakota Fanning
None of my characters have really had jobs. — Lauren Graham
I think that quite often you can only find a choice between bad and worse. But I think it's worth making the effort, and I… — Robert Jordan
I like straightforward names for my characters. When I get too symbolic with names or places, I start feeling like the characters and the story… — Tayari Jones
From a writer's standpoint, each character and story presents its own unique challenges and delights. I'm deeply curious about all of my characters, and I… — Tina St. John
My job is to help the functioning of the story, not to draw attention to myself, but to make my characters function within the story,… — Jeffrey Jones
I rarely return to characters. My characters, at least most of them, are much more a part of that superorganism that is the story than… — Etgar Keret
Before I write the first page of a novel, I spend a long time creating detailed backgrounds for my characters. I imagine the experiences that… — Lisa Kleypas
In my stories, I controlled what happened in a way I couldn't in real life. My characters lived through the horror and degradation of the… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
For the most part, there's so much of me in my characters. — Rashida Jones
My first two novels were set in the past, and that freed me up in a lot of ways; it allowed me to find my… — Jennifer Gilmore
If you look at my body of work, my characters drastically vary, and so I typically don't play the same role. It makes me feel… — Toni Trucks
The nature of acting is that one is many characters and jumps from one skin to another as a way of life. Sometimes it's hard… — Anjelica Huston
I'd say that any character or setting can be given a bit of an otherworldly sheen and be the better for it. The one thing… — Charles de Lint
My characters seem real because they are drawn from the realities of my life. I didn't have to research their pain; I just tapped into… — Charles de Lint
Well, while I didn't have the more extreme experiences of some of my characters, I didn't exactly come from the most normal of households. Or… — Charles de Lint
My characters are always utterly sympathetic to me. — Donal Logue
So I never spend a lot of time analyzing why people respond to my work. But I think that it's just the joy, a passion… — Michael J. Fox

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